This is such a Claude written post. Obvious tells everywhere, but the most annoying is how it uses private terms without defining them. What the fuck is "Spanner"? It refers to it multiple times. Of course we know the reason is that some dickhead at Ant told their Claude to write a blog post, and Claude being Claude has very poor/non-existent theory-of-mind for people and generates this trash.
https://cloud.google.com/spanner, though technically any database would work if you know how to scale them. Spanner just has a few nice properties for our scale.
Good call about us not defining it, I can fix that! And this blog post was 100% human-written.